Promises, Lies, and Dry-Run Mode - A Fistful of ServersIntroduction “I need to know what this will do to my production systems before I run it.” – Ask a Systems Administrator why they want dry-run mode in a management tool, and this is the answer you’ll get almost every single time. Historically, we have been able to use dry-run as a risk mitigation strategy before applying changes to machines. Dry-run is supposed to report what a tool would do, so th
